Quotes About Gratitude

If you could pack for heaven, this was how you'd do it, touching everything, taking nothing.

But I do know we're deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.

A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell.

We're so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks—we're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don't get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?

I love you every day, Mom

the pain we suffer is a way to make us appreciate what comes next.

What's wrong with being number 2?

People often belittle the place where they were born but heaven can be found in the most unlikely places.

if you find one true friend in your life, you're richer than most. If that one true friend is your husband, you're blessed. She paused. And if that one true friend is your sister, don't feel bad. At least, she can't divorce you.

With no loss or sacrifice, we can't appreciate what we have.

You have to find what's good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.

There are many kinds of selfishness in this world, but the most selfish is hoarding time, because none of us know how much we have, and it is an affront to God to assume there will be more.

If you find one true friend in life, you're richer than most. If that one true friend is your husband, you're blessed.

You marked the minutes, the old man said. But did you use them wisely? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted?

All blessings do not bless the same.

He explained how once we began to chime the hour, we lost the ability to be satisfied. There was always a quest for more minutes, more hours, faster progress to accomplish more in each day. The simple joy of living between sunrises was gone.

Don't be sorry. You're alive.

When I give my time, when I can make someone smile after they were feeling sad, it's as close to healthy as I ever feel. Do the kinds of things that come from the heart. When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overwhelmed with what comes back.

It's nice that you spend a day with your mother,' she said. Children should do it more often.

Be satisfied. Be grateful. For what you have. For what the love you received. And for what God has given you

Mitch, I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each morning, a few tears, and that's all. I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few minutes, then on with the day. And if Morrie could do it, with such a horrible disease . . .

Taking just makes me feel like I'm dying. Giving makes me feel like I'm living.

The most precious thing you can give someone is your time, Chika, because you can never get it back. When you don't think about getting it back, you've given it in love. I learned that from you.

Our culture doesn't encourage you to think about such things until you're about to die. We're so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks—we're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don't get into the habbit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?